.....But today of all days brings into sharp focus that as often as not, though, that's precisely what will happen. Syndromes and patterns; be they physical, social or psychological, have an awe-inspiring tendency to develop in much the same way, time after time - often painfully.
(I once saw an old photo of an elderly lady giving her grandson a kiss before he went to his fate in WWII. The caption said that years earlier, she'd done the same to her son at the outbreak of WWI; and her husband had seen action in the Boer War.)
Only when we make a deliberate effort to learn something from the past and try to make things turn out differently, do we break those ingrained habits.
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